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13511 Battalion Sports April 16, 1982 /Page 17 1M335. i siipcrscope Dolby ly D, call 846-8335 bdbrtlfi] SERVICES Spec Gammon’s retirement sparks reflections by Gaye Denley Battalion Staff someone who really to be a coach, Spec Gam- iperiencd fast,aranii, ion may have made the right 4 teision in turning to his second ~1loice, journalism and public -'dations. Alter all, the retiring sports ulmp;. 846-8022. hy or Betsy for all yom li| For xtssinj< needs. 69C “ typing, 693-4264. 823-7723. nwordproeesstaMiipiisM^jjation director has been icieriSenLT^ith the Aggie athletic staff for 9lyears. Few Texas A&M (jimpii'tcr S^fehes have been so lucky, in at 693-6358. And Harold L. (mammon has Service For All “ I v « see " t ?° man y c .? ac u hes :hryslerCorp.Cars e u t 1 ulcers ’ h f saK ' 1 h ^ r rlv Work — Painliir , l 0 e career depends on 19- • i CPI , unTnt M 20-year-old people and how ALSELL MOTOn^y perform ” OMPANYINC, g v con trast, Gammon’s job mexa n sA S r™?t' S l<P t n ^ s on those coaches, since ■■■■■■■■nis office acts as the liaison be- ’ROCESSINC-Pape: ween the media and the Texas ns, resumes, etc. Fast a i&M Athletic Department. gut after nearly 20 years of ■846-6200 193-3700, 845-2877 Spec Gammon writing press releases and hand ling the local and national media, the Oklahoma native, who announced his impending dug for any occasion. Ci 696-1250 anytime TYPINtf i. Let us type your pa iertations, reports, es WORD PROCESS vice. Reasonable ti! s Communication Stir; tOI 3 Texas Ave.S. 846-5794 BID Multilith printing prc ximnting computer fc Inspect at Texas AttMl'i ( Donald Bldg.. Him I Hid forms available ■ti Donald and Kimnillll Bldg. 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Contact: Mike McCoy 693-2346 or Jim Harry 846-6389. retirement last fall, is ready for something new. “1 enjoyed my work,” Gam mon said. “I guess I have about a 15-year attention span in my life, because I was a sportswriter for about 15 years, and I got tired of it, and 1 made the change into sports information. “I’d say up until about four years ago, I really enjoyed get ting every morning and and going to work, but for the last four years I’ve just been waiting to reach a time when I could re tire.” Gammon, who will be re placed in July by current TGU Sports Information Director Ralph Carpenter, hopes to find some diversion — perhaps for the next 15 years or so — in pri vate commission sales work. Meanwhile, Texas A&M athletic officials can only be grateful that a particular college . coach was just too busy. “I wanted to be a basketball coach — that’s what I played in high school and junior college,” i Gammon said. “Oklahoma State had a great baskethall coach named Hank Iba, one of the all- time greats. “And at that time, the coaches taught classes in the health and P.E. department. He taught the theory of basketball, and he li mited his classes to 20 people. I tried to get in — I was working on my masters degree — but it was full for three semesters.” So Gammon, by then reco vered from a World War II in jury sustained in the Battle of Tom Chandler says he can only keep his fingers crossed ab out this weekend’s make-or- break series between the Texas Aggies and the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Olsen Field. The Aggies can’t afford to lose any of their six remaining Southwest Conference games if they hope to make the four- team league tourney scheduled for Olsen Field May 14-17. The Raiders, in fourth place with a 7-5 conference record, are three the Bulge, left behind his basket ball aspirations and charged ahead with his journalism de gree. After a long stint as sports editor for the Odessa American, he came to Texas A&M in 1963. Gammon said one of the big gest turning points he’s seen in Texas A&M athletics was really a side effect of a major Univeristy policy shift. “The biggest change — really a change for the better — was in games ahead of the Aggies. Texas A&M holds down sixth place with a 5-9-1 record. Texas Tech has a 19-14 over all record and Texas A&M has a 27-15-1 record. “It’s now or never for us,” Chandler said. “We came off a good road trip and won one at Arkansas and one at Oklahoma. We’ve just got to go out and get with it.” SWC officials voted Thursday 1969 when they allowed women to enter full-time,” he said. “Prior to that, it was very diffi cult for A&M coaches to recruit athletes. So many boys just re fused to go to school where there’s no girls.” Such a problem seems distant in light of the Aggies’ most re cent recruiting crisis — the tem porary confusion surrounding the January appointment of Jackie Sherrill to the dual post of do-or-die to move the tournament to Arkansas if the Aggies don’t qualify. However, if Texas A&M finishes in the top four, the tour ney will still be held in Olsen Field. The Texas Longhorns, who have a 7-2 league record, are in first place, followed by Arkansas with an 11-4 mark. Houston’s 7- 3 record ranks third, and Baylor’s 6-6 puts the Bears two games ahead of the Aggies. Rick Luecken will be the start- head football coach and athletic director. Gammon says the national attention focused on Texas A&M as a result has died down. “I think as it came out we got more plus publicity,” he said. “I think our name went out across the country more, and people recognize Texas A&M now — maybe in a bad sense in one way — as a very affluent university, a university with a lot of money ” series ing pitcher for the Aggies in Fri day night’s game, which begins at 7:30. David Carroll will be Texas Tech’s probable starter, and Bobby Taylor and David Flores will be the Aggies’ pitch ers in Saturday’s 1 p.m. double- header. Corps Commander Kelly Castleberry will throw out the ceremonial first pitch in Friday night’s game, and a large repre sentation of the Corps of Cadets will attend the game. A&M hosts Tech in TWO HEAVY HITTERS TOUCH BASES ON BATS, BALLS, AND BEER^ BOOG POWELL (Former American Baseball Great): Koichi here has been giving me a new angle on baseball. It seems the game’s a little different in Japan. KOICHI NUMAZAWA (Former Japanese Baseball Great): ^ 9 , A. (£ 17 T —7U K £'“'J v c 1 Tftao smaller over there. KOICHI: -0) £ , '> 3 ~ h X'HZSb <*0 BOOG: Well, now that you men tioned it, I guess you guys are kinda smaller. Does that mean ' you drink Lite Beer ’cause it’s less filling? KOICHI: fcL'LU'rfPbgKit; BOOG: Tastes great? That’s why I drink it, too! I guess we have a lot more in common than I thought. KOICHI: ! f o X T, 0* BOOG: Me? I’m too big to play on a Japanese team. KOICHI: > a — h izMiMX'T J: o BOOG: That’s right. The field is A, XT To BOOG: Shortstop?! Very funny.